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Local books named to NEA’s Big Read list
Louise Erdrich’s novel “The Round House” and “The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir” by Kao Kalia Yang are among 13 titles added to the National Endowment for the Art’s Big Read program. Erdrich and Yang are Minnesotans. The other book with …
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A Nation Engaged: Milwaukee Hmong Community’s Hopes for a Better Life Post 2016 Elections
We’ve been talking to Milwaukee voters this week about what a better life looks like to them, and how the 2016 elections could help move the country toward those ends. It’s part of NPR’s series, “A Nation Engaged” and today we talk with …
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A Nation Engaged: Milwaukee’s Hmong Community Weighs In on Hopes for a Better Life Post 2016 Vote
We’ve been talking to Milwaukee voters this week about what a better life means to them, and what they hope to get out of the 2016 elections. It’s part of NPR’s series, “A Nation Engaged.” On Wednesday, we heard from tribal members living in …
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New Report Finds Refugees Take Big Steps Toward Integration In Their First American Decade
We’ve reported on such findings before, but this comprehensive new study focuses on four major refugee groups: Somali, Burmese, Hmong, and Bosnians, amounting to a total of about 500,000 people. While reasons for fleeing their homelands differ, they have …
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California board of ed adopts landmark LGBT coursework
Among the more than 200 speakers were Hindus, Hmong, Muslims, Hispanics, Southeast Asians, Christians, teachers, students, parents, and activists for gay and lesbian rights. With legal and political challenges exhausted, opposition to the LGBT content was …
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Don’t sit at home: The Little Mekong Night Market is an essential St. Paul experience
You should totally go. Last year’s event was packed, and each year it gets a little more vibrant. This year’s stage performances will include Hmong Breakers Leadership Council (modern and traditional Hip Hop performance arts), Hmong musicians Ka Lia Yang …
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In the narrative of race, why only black ink on white paper?
I thought about doing what I normally do when classroom situations necessitated that I rise beyond my emotions, redirecting their statements into questions so that a conversation can happen, but before I could, one of my Hmong students, a quiet girl …
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A Nation Engaged: Milwaukee’s Hmong Community Hopes Next Elected Officials Can Promise Better Life
Credit Marti Mikkelson We’ve been talking to Milwaukee voters this week about what a better life means to them, and what they hope to get out of the 2016 elections. It’s part of NPR’s series, “A Nation Engaged.” On Wednesday, we heard from tribal …
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Lawsuit to forcibly desegregate Twin Cities schools moves closer to trial
Lots of Minnesota parents prefer to send their kids to cultural immersion charter schools, like those specifically set apart for Somali or Hmong students, where nearly all students belong to a single ethnic group. And community schools, a point of pride …
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Growers push for marijuana ordinance
Tags peopleIs that what the people really want?” Supervisor-elect Bobbi Chadwick asked that the limitation on speakers be reconsidered, saying “the Hmong already feel disenfranchised and want to speak for themselves. These people are in the middle of what they …
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Claudia Rankine, Kao Kalia Yang and others added to NEA Big Read list
The Big Read–the National Endowment for the Arts’ program to help bring books to communities–has added 13 new titles to its library, including “The Latehomecomer,” the first memoir by St. Paul Hmong writer Kao Kalia Yang, “How We Became Human,” by Native …
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The 25 dishes that define St. Paul
The Twin Cities is home to one of the country’s largest Hmong populations, so we’re lucky to have traditional Hmong cuisine at our fingertips. Stuffed chicken wings (Pioneer Press: Jess Fleming) Amid rows and rows of retail stalls inside bustling …
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Marathon County admin subject of probe
Many attendees said Dylan Yang was not treated fairly in the court system because he’s Hmong and that he should have been tried as a juvenile, rather than an adult. In February 2015, two groups of boys clashed first on social media and then in a …
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CEPEDA: Asian-Americans soar in population but can’t escape the pigeonhole
In regard to an intra-Asian dynamic, Hmong, Tongan and Vietnamese populations, for example, are among the most poorly educated communities in the United States — not just within the Asian community. In fact, some black and Hispanic students outperform …
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Floating Library comes to St. Paul’s Lake Phalen
This year she got a Knight Arts Challenge grant and has commissioned four artists — Tou Yia Xiong, Caitlin Warner, Aaron Johnson-Ortiz and Martine Workman — to create new books covering subjects ranging from animals (with words in Hmong and English …
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Joint Base Lewis-McChord solider who died during training was family’s ‘Superman’
“And he really cared for them and loved all the kids.” Lee said a traditional Hmong funeral will be conducted soon, although the time, date and place weren’t finalized as of Tuesday. “On behalf of the soldiers and officers of the 2nd …
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Aspiring Eagle Scout connecting to heritage through project
A Boy Scout from the East Side is connecting with his Hmong heritage through his Eagle Scout project. Chinu Thao, 15, is a student at Johnson High School who is completing his Eagle Scout project by helping with the Edible Streetscape project. Edible …
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Joint Base Lewis-McChord soldier who died during training was family’s ‘Superman’
“And he really cared for them and loved all the kids.” Lee said a traditional Hmong funeral will be conducted soon, although the time, date and place weren’t finalized as of Tuesday. “On behalf of the soldiers and officers of the 2nd …